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For the past five years, ever since the concept of using private development to help fund the ongoing operations of Brooklyn Bridge Park was floated, controversy has swirled. As Dennis Holt reports in The Brooklyn Eagle, the city agreed to revisit the idea, hiring a consultant to oversee the review. The process kicked off on Tuesday night with a public meeting at LICH. At that meeting the Memorandum of Understanding that governs the review process was made available, and it included some interesting details about the potential developments that we were not aware of. The biggest is that if housing is approved, the first site to get developed would be the John Street site (not Pier 1, which has gotten most of the attention); nothing could start there until July of next year. And here’s how big all four projects would be:
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What do you make of that?


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  1. Does anyone seriously think that the two development sites at Pier 6; one on the south side of One Brooklyn Bridge Park and the other against Furman Street, will diminish anyone’s enjoyment of the Park whatsoever? Ok, so we build out yet some other play areas for kids on those sites with nannies in tow from Cobble Hill and call it a day? The kids will certainly grow up and be pissed at all of us when they have to foot the bill for the collapsing Park Piers- if they should care to live here.

  2. the view plane from Brooklyn Heights IS land-marked. This is outside that land-marked view-plane(piers 1 and 6).

    I understand the difference between maintenance and capital payments. But the maintenance of the piers-including the pylons holding it up is a capital expense in most cases. The money the BBP is putting aside to maintain them will be a capital expenditure. Yes the City is hard up now but the piers won’t have to be redone for a while- they are putting the money aside now.

    and its Robert Moses fault the Dodgers are in LA(really)…

  3. BHS… this is NYC; school boundaries are set in stone for the most part, and the current public schools surrounding BBP don’t have the capacity for the current population, even with expansions like PS8. Dumbo didn’t exist 15 years ago… the school cap hasn’t grown since then. And even though it needs to expand, it may not.

    As for “preserving views for rich people in Brooklyn Heights is more important than providing city services”… the Brooklyn Bridge Park (which has been in some form of plans for two decades) and Promenade are for everyone. It’s part of NYC, and about much more than that simple grievance.

    And Bxgrl… Spot-on about Moses.